Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia test limits of Mecca regional security pact

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Recent Houthi attacks target Saudi Arabia's energy and military infrastructure shortly after a new regional defense pact with Pakistan and Turkey. The meeting of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement reaffirmed commitment to collective defense and intelligence cooperation among members.

Just a month after Saudi Arabia signed a regional mutual defence deal with Pakistan and Turkey, attacks by Yemen’s Houthis against the kingdom’s energy infrastructure and military sites are testing the pact’s limits. At a hastily convened meeting of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in Riyadh on Friday, military chiefs of the three parties reaffirmed their commitment to collective defence, according to the Saudi Press Agency. The agency said the talks focused on “intelligence cooperation,...